NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), today announced that
Scott S. Cowen, President of Tulane University in New Orleans, has been
elected to the Barnes & Noble Board of Directors. Dr. Cowen is the 14th
President of Tulane University. He also holds joint appointments as the
Seymour S. Goodman Memorial Professor of Business in Tulane’s A.B.
Freeman School of Business and Professor of Economics in the School of
Liberal Arts.

“We could not be more pleased to welcome President Cowen to our board,”
said Leonard Riggio, Chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc. “He brings a broad
range of experience to the board on the educational front as well as
substantial experience having served on both public and private company
boards.”

President Cowen joined Tulane in 1998 and since that time has more than
quadrupled its undergraduate applications while experiencing all-time
highs in student quality. In addition, Tulane has more than doubled the
level of total private giving to the university and received a record
level of research awards. The university has implemented a number of
innovative academic and research program initiatives and significantly
increased its community outreach. As a result of Tulane’s growth, the
university, under Dr. Cowen’s leadership, has invested approximately
$700 million in new and renovated facilities in the last eight years.

President Cowen’s areas of scholarship and teaching focus on strategic
financial management systems, corporate governance and leadership. He
has consulted with dozens of companies, from startups to Fortune 100
companies and is currently a board member of Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. and
Forest City Enterprises.

President Cowen received his bachelor’s degree from the University of
Connecticut. He received his masters and doctoral degrees, respectively,
from The George Washington University in the fields of finance and
management.

President Cowen and his wife, Marjorie, have four children and four
grandchildren.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading
retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company
operates 663 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the
Web’s largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of
digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store®
(www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 696 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained by visiting
the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK®, NOOK Store®, NOOK Video™, and
NOOK Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
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respective owners.

NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to Read What You
Love, Anywhere You Like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and
immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access
to the expansive NOOK Store® of more than 3 million (US) and
2.5 million (UK) digital books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies
and TV shows, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of
popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK
Video Apps™, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble’s
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom at
leading retailers; NOOK content can be purchased at www.nook.co.uk.